Spotlight on digital leadership priorities in ICBs and ICSs
Meet members the new ICS Digital Council, a new Digital Health project to bring together ICS and ICB digital leaders to collaborate and exchange best practice. The session will present the first results of the ICS Digital Council survey, exploring priorities.
Chair: Dr Alec Price-Forbes, CCIO,University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Joe McDonald
Medical Director Sleepstation – SARD JV, Parsek Solutions, Ethical Healthcare
Professor Joe McDonald, founder of the Great North Care Record, former National Clinical Lead for IT. Consultant Psychiatrist. Former Chairman CCIO Network. Medical Director at Sleepstation, SARD JV & Parsek Soltions. Principal Consultant at Ethical Healthcare.
Masood Ahmed
Chief Digital Information Officer & Deputy CMO – NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICS
Dr Masood Ahmed serves as the Chief Digital Innovation Officer and Deputy CMO for NHS Shropshire, Telford, and Wrekin ICS. He teaches at UCL Global Business School for Health, is an NHS NED and former roles include Global Medical Director at Dell and CMO for a System serving 1.5m. His dedication to strategy, transformation, innovation and cultivating future leaders makes him a champion for change.
Linda Vernon
Interim Head of Digital Empowerment – Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
An advanced physiotherapy practitioner by background, Linda Vernon is interim Digital Culture and Transformation Clinical Lead across Lancashire & South Cumbria ICS. Passionate about upstream population health, co-production and empowering individuals and communities, Linda leads digital programmes supporting social prescribing, self-management and digital inclusion across Lancashire & South Cumbria.
John Mitchell
Associate Director of Digital – NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB
John has enjoyed over 20 years in the NHS Health Space, working within Primary Care, CCG, ICB and Support Services arenas.
A champion for connected systems and data, John is keen to empower clinicians and patients by ensuring that they have access to the right information to support their requirements
Chair
Dr Alec Price-Forbes
CCIO – University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Joe McDonald, John Mitchell, Linda Vernon, Masood Ahmed
